While reading the story, we talked about how the artist didn't need a lot of detail to make his illustrations. We made another lapbook this week. E really enjoys this and so do I. I was thrilled to have a couple snowy days here, which we took advantage of by playing outside and doing a snow experiment.
First, we reviewed our previous sight words and added a new one: snow.
We added a "What is White?" element to our lapbook from homeschoolshare.com:
and E colored in the title page:
We went outside to try to catch some snowflakes on our snowy day. We talked a lot about how each one is unique and related that to how big God is to have created them all!
We went out to the deck to make tracks in the snow like the boy in the book. (She cannot walk with her toes in or out, however! Strange...) She even found a stick to drag!
The stick worked well for writing her name in the snow:
Next for an experiment. We made two snowballs and put them into containers. One we left on the counter and one we put into the freezer. E predicted that the snowball on the counter would melt, but the freezer one would not. After her rest time, she discovered that she was correct!
We also made a snowman for our lapbook, with a craft kit leftover from C's Winter Party:
We also made a paper snowflake. We had to use grown-up scissors for this, so it was a heavily "mom-supervised activity":
Lastly, I printed out a worksheet with eight animal tracks. I also printed out the matchbook template from homeschoolshare and glued the tracks on the front. Then I printed out the eight animals' photos from Google Images and had E cut them out. Together, we researched the animal tracks and matched the (hopefully!) correct animal to it's track:
Finished Lapbook, with felt scrapbook snowflakes glued on for decoration:
Lastly, we used the snowflake technique to make cinnamon snowflakes as a snack:
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